If 20-year-old synapses serve, some games didn't come with the fancy loader that allowed jumping into an automatic run. I know Ultima II did that trick, but many of the games from EA didn't. Oh well, time to change my sig anyway:)
I told my wife that we needed a Sweedish 17 y/o baby sitter for our kids.
She said "I hope he's cute".
Moral of the story, always hire a lawyer for the hiring specifications because "Cute summer student" could mean something entirely different than what you were expecting.
You want gear with integrated lights-out-management. Any gear that supports SSH and SNMP should be perfectly usable over a shitty connection.
Most (all?) of the Sun servers come with an embedded ILOM that supports remote KVM through a web browser with Java as well as SSH. The SSH access gives you full out-of-band power control over the server, and can be used to look at system part numbers, power supply voltages, fan speeds, etc. Additionally you can configure SNMP monitoring/traps through the ILOM no matter what OS is running on the box.
We've used the x2200 M2, x4200 M2, and x4540 servers and the ILOM in each of them means I never have to go down to our data center to physically touch a box.
Ironically, some of the HP DL series have integrated out-of-band management called iLO, but they charge an additional few hundred dollars to gain features such as KVM or authentication. I don't like paying extra for features that should just be available out of the box.
The other thing you want is remotely managed online battery power. You want your power to be clean, going through a dual transformer conversion so no matter what kind of crappy power you have at the site, your gear is getting a nice clean voltage. Get something that has a good network-management interface on it. I've used MinuteMan Endeavor, Liebert GXT2, and one from APC that was online, but I can't seem to find it now. Each of these supports SNMP and web-based management.
We signed up with Qwest for 10 installations of MPLS across the globe. The domestic (US) sites were dropped in a matter of a few days. The international sites took well over a month.
Tagging and time are two *very* underused metaphors in today's computer programs. Ever tried to tag an email with both a project and subproject? It doesn't happen. Gmail sort of allows this, but won't show you all the tags for a specific conversation in the main display, just that it's tagged with the most recent tag.
I'd love to have an application (or OS) that brought in and stored data (email, documents, whatever) in a better system than just a flat tree.
FTR, make sure your ZFS pools don't get above 80-85% full. Our 24T pool went from "pretty good" to "abysmal" when we jumped to 91% capacity. I freed up a bunch of snapshots and got us back to 81% and the performance came back.
Yes, this has been integrated into Cisco routers for quite some time. It's called Weighted Fair Queueing. WFQ schedules high-bandwidth streams in a round-robin fashion, yielding bandwidth to low-bandwidth streams so applications that speak infrequently don't get starved out. i.e. The more you talk on the pipe, the lower your overall priority becomes.
Cisco also extends this concept with class-based Weighted Fair Queueing. CBWFQ allows you to put traffic into buckets and each bucket can have different queuing strategies. This is commonly used with an LLQ with VoIP RTP traffic to guarantee clear voice communications, put some business critical applications second in line (Citrix, Terminal Server, Exchange, etc.), and put all the traffic in the default WFQ bucket.
Indeed. I went with.world for our internal DNS naming scheme and Active Directory. I set up sub-domains for each of our facilities (site.company.world). Accessing the phone system at a site becomes pbx.site.company.world, which works out quite well from my end...
Amen. I just switched from a BB Pearl to a BB 8820 through T-Mobile. Not only do I have a (somewhat small) full QWERTY keyboard, but the 8820 has full Wifi and UMA.
Add to that the wonderful SSH client from Rove Mobile and I have LAN-speed SSH when I'm near Wifi and EDGE speed practically everywhere else.
Their standard quoted price is $10K for unlimited royalty-free distribution, but they are *VERY* willing to work with you to price the product correctly for your product. Don't discount that number if you have a commercial application. Negotiating a percentage of sales opposed to writing your own communications subsystem is really a no-brainer.
I'm not sure if there's any statistical evidence to back this up, but I've been using "white on blueprint-blue" for the last few years.
Blueprint blue is actually Prussian Blue at RGB 00 49 83. It's a fairly smooth color on the eyes, and white text goes very well with it. You can adjust the intensity of the white down depending on your monitor to minimize eye strain.
Now that PostgreSQL properly (native binaries vs Cygwin and fast/east installation) supports Windows, only a fool would use PostgreSQL for new projects.
I absolutely agree with you. There used to be a restaurant in town that had "fancy" glasses for drinks. They were fairly thin-walled glass with a nice concave bottom and were very flat. All of the tables had glass on them. I would always get iced tea, and there was quite a bit of condensation on the glass. As the tea warmed to room temperature, the glass would start moving across the table. I always thought it was just funny to see it happen, and my 4 year old thinks it's just magic.:)
I'd never thought about that phenomenon with respect to the moving rocks, but it makes perfect sense!
(4) I have an iPhone. I'm waiting for the iPhone SDK to be released.. it will be interesting to see how it compares. I really like Cocoa. It's really a great language/libraries for developing windowed systems. Interface Builder is the only GUI builder I think makes sense. I hate code generation, and I hate the weird quirks that come with many others (QT, Visual Studios, WxWidgets, GLADE++). IB just works. I've had a much better GUI design experience after switching to JFormDesigner. It does a spectacular job of making all the layout managers completely intuitive. The only other GUI designer that even came close to it was the Delphi/C++Builder designer, but it was still a distant second place.
It's paid for itself many times over in saved headaches and time.
Real nice. Because I have a problem with a Microsoft product, I (and my customers) are brainless. You didn't get accepted to the debate team in high school, did you?
No, because the machine came with the correct driver on it out of the box, and Windows "updated the driver" to the generic non-DRM version. This is *not* a Lenovo problem, but a Microsoft problem.
I actually bought 3 machines on one order. Two T60's, and one T61p. Only one of the three (one of the two T60's) had the problem.
It's the inconsistencies that are going to hurt Microsoft's bottom line.
I just configured a new Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with Vista and the first thing my client asked me to do was to play a movie. I popped a DVD into the drive, media player started automatically, then Windows threw up an error message that it couldn't validate the video path with DRM.
I found out that the graphics driver that shipped with the laptop wasn't "ceritified" to run with Vista. I had to download the 30MB+ graphics driver update before I could play a DVD.
Microsoft, you're really fucking your users over with Vista.
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If 20-year-old synapses serve, some games didn't come with the fancy loader that allowed jumping into an automatic run. I know Ultima II did that trick, but many of the games from EA didn't. Oh well, time to change my sig anyway :)
I told my wife that we needed a Sweedish 17 y/o baby sitter for our kids.
She said "I hope he's cute".
Moral of the story, always hire a lawyer for the hiring specifications because "Cute summer student" could mean something entirely different than what you were expecting.
Informative!? Um.... right.... <backs away slowly>
One more thing I forgot to mention. You said you were using Windows servers at the site. Install OpenSSH for Windows and on every box. That will give you a great command-line ability to list/kill processes, start/stop services, and generally do much of the Windows admin work in a script-friendly environment. The last thing you want to do is deal with a super-slow VNC or RDP session when you're just trying to restart a service.
You want gear with integrated lights-out-management. Any gear that supports SSH and SNMP should be perfectly usable over a shitty connection.
Most (all?) of the Sun servers come with an embedded ILOM that supports remote KVM through a web browser with Java as well as SSH. The SSH access gives you full out-of-band power control over the server, and can be used to look at system part numbers, power supply voltages, fan speeds, etc. Additionally you can configure SNMP monitoring/traps through the ILOM no matter what OS is running on the box.
We've used the x2200 M2, x4200 M2, and x4540 servers and the ILOM in each of them means I never have to go down to our data center to physically touch a box.
Ironically, some of the HP DL series have integrated out-of-band management called iLO, but they charge an additional few hundred dollars to gain features such as KVM or authentication. I don't like paying extra for features that should just be available out of the box.
The other thing you want is remotely managed online battery power. You want your power to be clean, going through a dual transformer conversion so no matter what kind of crappy power you have at the site, your gear is getting a nice clean voltage. Get something that has a good network-management interface on it. I've used MinuteMan Endeavor, Liebert GXT2, and one from APC that was online, but I can't seem to find it now. Each of these supports SNMP and web-based management.
We signed up with Qwest for 10 installations of MPLS across the globe. The domestic (US) sites were dropped in a matter of a few days. The international sites took well over a month.
It's all a matter of perspective.
You could write your web application in C++ but I'm not sure if anyone other than you would be able to understand it in 5 years... :)
Tagging and time are two *very* underused metaphors in today's computer programs. Ever tried to tag an email with both a project and subproject? It doesn't happen. Gmail sort of allows this, but won't show you all the tags for a specific conversation in the main display, just that it's tagged with the most recent tag.
I'd love to have an application (or OS) that brought in and stored data (email, documents, whatever) in a better system than just a flat tree.
Almost, but your key may not be as truly random as you might think. Post your key here so we can verify it's really secure.
FTR, make sure your ZFS pools don't get above 80-85% full. Our 24T pool went from "pretty good" to "abysmal" when we jumped to 91% capacity. I freed up a bunch of snapshots and got us back to 81% and the performance came back.
Yes, this has been integrated into Cisco routers for quite some time. It's called Weighted Fair Queueing. WFQ schedules high-bandwidth streams in a round-robin fashion, yielding bandwidth to low-bandwidth streams so applications that speak infrequently don't get starved out. i.e. The more you talk on the pipe, the lower your overall priority becomes.
Cisco also extends this concept with class-based Weighted Fair Queueing. CBWFQ allows you to put traffic into buckets and each bucket can have different queuing strategies. This is commonly used with an LLQ with VoIP RTP traffic to guarantee clear voice communications, put some business critical applications second in line (Citrix, Terminal Server, Exchange, etc.), and put all the traffic in the default WFQ bucket.
Indeed. I went with .world for our internal DNS naming scheme and Active Directory. I set up sub-domains for each of our facilities (site.company.world). Accessing the phone system at a site becomes pbx.site.company.world, which works out quite well from my end...
Amen. I just switched from a BB Pearl to a BB 8820 through T-Mobile. Not only do I have a (somewhat small) full QWERTY keyboard, but the 8820 has full Wifi and UMA.
Add to that the wonderful SSH client from Rove Mobile and I have LAN-speed SSH when I'm near Wifi and EDGE speed practically everywhere else.
Their standard quoted price is $10K for unlimited royalty-free distribution, but they are *VERY* willing to work with you to price the product correctly for your product. Don't discount that number if you have a commercial application. Negotiating a percentage of sales opposed to writing your own communications subsystem is really a no-brainer.
You must have been doing things the same day I was.... We're AS32310. :)
Agreed. I tried using a bright color on black, but it always seemed to mess with my eyes and it took a minute to focus on anything else.
See my other post on what color scheme I've been using for the last few years with much better results.
I'm not sure if there's any statistical evidence to back this up, but I've been using "white on blueprint-blue" for the last few years.
Blueprint blue is actually Prussian Blue at RGB 00 49 83. It's a fairly smooth color on the eyes, and white text goes very well with it. You can adjust the intensity of the white down depending on your monitor to minimize eye strain.
I absolutely agree with you. There used to be a restaurant in town that had "fancy" glasses for drinks. They were fairly thin-walled glass with a nice concave bottom and were very flat. All of the tables had glass on them. I would always get iced tea, and there was quite a bit of condensation on the glass. As the tea warmed to room temperature, the glass would start moving across the table. I always thought it was just funny to see it happen, and my 4 year old thinks it's just magic. :)
I'd never thought about that phenomenon with respect to the moving rocks, but it makes perfect sense!
It's paid for itself many times over in saved headaches and time.
It gets better! Sun also has the Sun SPOT embedded development kit. Hopefully Google and Sun will collaborate and come up with the G-SPOT.
Real nice. Because I have a problem with a Microsoft product, I (and my customers) are brainless. You didn't get accepted to the debate team in high school, did you?
No, because the machine came with the correct driver on it out of the box, and Windows "updated the driver" to the generic non-DRM version. This is *not* a Lenovo problem, but a Microsoft problem.
I actually bought 3 machines on one order. Two T60's, and one T61p. Only one of the three (one of the two T60's) had the problem.
It's the inconsistencies that are going to hurt Microsoft's bottom line.
I just configured a new Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with Vista and the first thing my client asked me to do was to play a movie. I popped a DVD into the drive, media player started automatically, then Windows threw up an error message that it couldn't validate the video path with DRM.
I found out that the graphics driver that shipped with the laptop wasn't "ceritified" to run with Vista. I had to download the 30MB+ graphics driver update before I could play a DVD.
Microsoft, you're really fucking your users over with Vista.
Will it translate casting liquified limestone correctly?
I swear, that was the funniest damn thing I've seen on slashdot.